Late district attorney and county judge of Schenectady County; Attorney to the State Insurance Department; Member of Assembly; Major in the volunteer forces of the United States during the War of the Rebellion and Spanish-American War.

Men who their duties know;
But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain,
Prevent the long-aimed blow,
And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain;
These constitute a state.

[This information is from Schenectady County, New York: Its History to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Austin A. Yates (New York: New York History Co., 1902). It is in the Schenectady Collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at Schdy R 974.744 Yat, and copies are also available for borrowing.]